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Yip
Yip
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Tourist
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That was the one I couldn't find an appropriate onomatopoeia for, right?
son1911
Zooville Settler
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Home Improvement! And also French eu as in amateur etc.
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Oof, gonna be easy to memorize that one.
Oof, gonna be easy to memorize that one.
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Tourist
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Are we all going to be speaking like Norsemen now?
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Eyup
son1911
Zooville Settler
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Góður hundur.
YIMBY
Tourist
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That's the only thing I know how to say in Icelandic or Old Norse. Or Old English, IIRC.
That's the only thing I know how to say in Icelandic or Old Norse. Or Old English, IIRC.
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son1911
Zooville Settler
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Fun fact: Old Norse branched into two major dialects, eastern and western (there is also Gutnish). The westerns dialect was spoken in Norway and these people were the ones to colonize Iceland. So in a sense, modern Icelandic could be said to be Old Norwegian.
Modern Icelandic, but it has retained pretty much everything from Old Norse. Old English is a different language.
Fun fact: Old Norse branched into two major dialects, eastern and western (there is also Gutnish). The westerns dialect was spoken in Norway and these people were the ones to colonize Iceland. So in a sense, modern Icelandic could be said to be Old Norwegian.
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Interesting
Interesting
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Tourist
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I was extrapolating from "þæt wæs god cyning."
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son1911
Zooville Settler
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Beowulf?
YIMBY
Tourist
Triple dozen.
Beowulf.
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That shouldn't be difficult. The copyright has expired by about a thousand years.
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son1911
Zooville Settler
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I want a quality edition.
YIMBY
Tourist
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Personally, I'm pretty happy with my Penguin paperback.
Hard cover, with Old English and translated text?
Personally, I'm pretty happy with my Penguin paperback.
son1911
Zooville Settler
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The most important is that the text is based on good source materials.
YIMBY
Tourist
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There's been plenty of translations but there's only one source.